A new report issued by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce revealed that Indian companies continued to top the list of new foreign companies joining the Chamber's membership in 2025, with 18,486 new members, marking an 11% growth compared to the number of Indian companies that joined during the same period in 2024. Pakistan ranked second with 9,138 new companies in 2025, a 12% annual increase, while Egypt came third on the list of nationalities of companies joining the Chamber's membership, with the number of new Egyptian companies registered during the last year reaching 5,043. The United Kingdom ranked fourth with 2,733 new companies, a 5% annual growth, followed by Bangladesh in fifth place, where 2,721 new companies from Bangladesh joined the Chamber's membership last year, a 15% annual growth. Syria ranked sixth with 1,907 new companies joining the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. Chinese companies ranked seventh with 1,583 new companies, a 7% annual growth, and Jordan came eighth with 1,325 new companies. Turkey secured ninth place with 1,308 new companies, while the United States ranked tenth with 1,054 new companies joining. With the addition of 71,830 new companies to the Chamber's membership during the year 2025, the total number of Chamber members rose to 292,486 active companies by the end of 2025, compared to 258,318 companies in 2024, a growth of 13.2%. Regarding the sectoral distribution of new companies joining the Dubai Chamber of Commerce during 2025, the real estate, rental, and business services sectors accounted for 37.6% of the activities of new members, followed by the wholesale and retail trade sector with a share of 34.5%, and the construction sector came third with a percentage of 17.2%, while the social and personal services sector came fourth with a percentage of 7.9%, followed by the transport, storage, and communications sector with a percentage of 7.2%.
